A free comic workshop led by artists Sally Jane Thompson, Rachael Smith, and Karen Rubins in London at The Feminist Library? I’d signed up faster than you can say sequential-art-salon-in-Southwark.
Advanced Functionality: Date Night With WWAC
I would probably date Nautica from Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, were she an actual existing person. She’s an adorable, well read, left leaning, politically minded, sweet purple lady that likes cats. Basically my girlfriend, if she was a giant robot that turned into a submersible vehicle and had engineering knowledge.
[NSFW] Fucking Trans Women: “A sexual cookbook.”
Fucking Trans Women #0 Mira Bellwether Released: October 2010 80 pages, zine Fucking Trans Women is an 80-page zine by Mira Bellwether about sex, gender, and trans women representation. It includes personal and political essays, diagrams, 101 info, and sex tips. The zine is available in hardcopy or as a PDF. The following conversation between…
Kid Comics Go to Class: Math Problems
I hate math. Do not even come near me with talk of logarithms, imaginary numbers, or cosines. Making my way through math classes was like a miserable walk up a hill on a muggy, bug-infested day. Even now, the only math problems I can wrap my head around are story problems. Give me a narrative…
Kid Comics Go to Class: Physicists Teaching With Comic Books
The American Physical Society is a non-profit network of over 48,000 physicists working to educate the general public on physics. Their mission statement reads “In the firm belief that an understanding of the nature of the physical universe will be of benefit to all humanity, the Society shall have as its objective the advancement and…
Kid Comics Go to Class: Comic Book Classroom
Comic Book Classroom is a non-profit that implements school programs about art and writing with comic books. Glorious, literacy stimulating comic books. Based in Colorado, the group extends their resources to educational and community institutions free of charge. CBC is volunteer driven, running off of proceeds from the Denver Comic Con as well as through…
September Staff Picks: Books!
Broken Monsters Lauren Beukes Little, Brown and Company From the author of The Shining Girls, the newest book follows female homicide detective Gabi Versado as she tangles with failed-artist-turned-murderer Clayton Broom. I enjoyed the creepiness of The Shining Girls and it sounds like Broken Monsters follows the same path. — Brenda
Gene Luen Yang on Comics in Education
For this installment of Kids Comics Go to Class we’re looking at Comics in Education, a website run by Gene Luen Yang. That’s right. Gene-Boxers & Saints–American Born Chinese-Yang. The site and the webcomic featured on it were his final project proposal for his Masters of Education degree at California State University. The project, a…
Kids Read Comics: A Dang Cool Convention
Kids Read Comics. Holy cow. Where to begin. This is the cutest little comic con in the world. Last month KRC held its fifth annual celebration at the Ann Arbor District Library, and it was the best year yet. What makes this kid’s con so cool? See below.
Interview with Trevor Mueller from Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter
Kids love comic books. Kids love to learn. Introducing comic books to the classroom is a sure-fire way to hold students’ interest and help them retain the information being taught. There are so many ways to incorporate comics into education, and Reading With Pictures is an organization devoted to tackling this idea. Their main focus is…
R/W: A Collection of Links On Language, Literacy, and Writing
Language For the language geeks, BuzzFeed contributor John Herman tells us Why We Sound Weird When We Talk About Tech. It involves, as you’d imagine, the verbing of nouns and adjectives, and our relative familiarity with these new verbs. Elegance? That’s mostly a matter of perspective, not an objective style fact.
nErDcamp: Kids Comics in the Classroom
We’re kicking off Kids Comics go to Class with nErDcamp. This is a two day conference with loads of information for teachers, librarians, and all other forms of educators to learn new approaches to promote literacy.